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“Quickie began its life in 1973 with a single store located at Shoppers City East in Ottawa’s east end. Today we have over 50 stores and serve communities across Eastern Ontario and in Gatineau. The passage of Bill 115, Bringing Choice and Fairness to the People Act (Beverage Alcohol Retail Sales), 2019 is great news … Read more

“We’re a local, family-owned business that has served the Waterloo and Wellington Regions for over 50 years. We pride ourselves on giving our customers that old fashioned “corner store” experience that is hard to find in this day and age. We do our best to greet our customers by name, remember their favorite items, and … Read more

403,412 Ontarians say it’s time The Beer Store had some competition and voice support for beer in convenience stores www.freeourbeer.ca petition unveiled in Toronto is the largest in Ontario history April 23, 2014 – Toronto – Amid a “fear mongering” ad blitz launched by The Beer Store to protect its near-monopoly on beer sales in … Read more

April 17, 2014 Premier Kathleen Wynne, premier@ontario.ca Premier Wynne: It’s time for some adult supervision of The Beer Store Dear Premier Wynne, There’s a healthy debate ongoing in Ontario about modernizing our 87 year-old system of alcohol retailing. That’s a good thing. Debate about public policy issues that are important to Ontarians should be welcomed. … Read more

Fear and loathing by The Beer Store Jerry Agar – Toronto Sun Faced with the tiniest bit of competition, The Beer Store is in full-tilt, spin-control, propaganda mode. The great fear for a monopoly is not that it might lose 1% of market share, but that through that small window into the marketplace, customers might … Read more

The Beer Store’s latest ad attacking Ontario convenience stores is a doozy. The National Post summed it up well: But the latest ad, which has been called “fear mongering” and “propaganda” by critics, unleashed a new level of mockery on social media against the Beer Store’s campaign. Full story: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/15/new-beer-store-ad-envisions-dystopian-future-after-its-monopoly-is-broken-is-mocked-on-social-media/

National Post: Chris Selley, Matt Gurney, and NOW’s Jonathan Goldsbie discuss Ontario’s antiquated web of liquor-retail laws here. A funny read. Chris Selley: “I’m more offended by the quasi-monopoly that’s run by the government than by the one that’s run by the three foreign mega-brewers. Because that’s nothing less than proof of concept: The private sector can safely and profitably … Read more

Mark Milke, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, punches holes in the logic The Beer Store uses to try and claim competition for beer sales in Ontario will lead to higher prices: “The privatization of all government liquor stores (completed in 1994) led to a dramatic expansion in the number of private sector liquor outlets … Read more